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== Green Design Challenges and Competitions ==
 
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[http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2768 Recyclemania] UCSC competes
  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller Buckminster Fuller] Institute [http://challenge.bfi.org/movie site with video]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller Buckminster Fuller] Institute [http://challenge.bfi.org/movie site with video]

Revision as of 22:16, 6 March 2009

Green Design Challenges and Competitions

Recyclemania UCSC competes

Buckminster Fuller Institute site with video

Xprize has [video contest for wild green ideas, high mileage cars, and will soon have other prizes for green design and entrepreneurship.

PETA is offering an XPrize for test tube meat. See pro's and cons.

Engineers Without Borders - USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students. Research Challenges

Green Chemistry

PBS News Hour segment on student competition to build biological machines, for example for bio-fuels and remediation.